Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet, Brå) (2022) Hate crime in digital environments (Hatbrott i digitala miljöer), report 2022:12, December 2022

Country

Sweden

Title

Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet, Brå) (2022) Hate crime in digital environments (Hatbrott i digitala miljöer), report 2022:12, December 2022

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Year

2022

Type of publication

Report

Geographical coverage

National

Area/location of interest

Not applicable - national level

Type of Institution

Public authority

Institution

Sweden, Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention| Brottsförebyggande rådet, Brå

Main Thematic Focus

Hate crime

Target Population

General population

Key findings

According to the report, xenophobic and racist hate crime motives were by far the most common in relation to digital hate crimes (44%), followed by hate crimes against religious groups (27%), LGBTQI-related hate crimes (16%) and hate crime without specified motives (13%). One characteristic of the digital hate crimes was that the category of hate crimes against religious groups accounted for a larger proportion of the total number of hate crimes than in the regular hate crime statistics (which also include hate crimes in physical environments), and that antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes were about equally common among the digital hate crimes, whereas Islamophobic hate crime motives were more common than antisemitic hate crime motives in the regular hate crime statistics.

Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)

Quantitative (statistics based on police reports)

Sample details and representativeness

The data used for this study is derived from 489 police reports from 2020 that were marked by the police auhtority as involving hate crimes and were assessed by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention as containing a hate crime motive and as committed in digital environments.

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